Cannot insert a div name -double quotes

[georgee.b]

hi i have this problem

 

i have data coming in from the database and i am fetching it into an array

then i am trying to use one of its values as a div name and it does not put double quotes around it

 

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

echo "<div id=" .\"$row['arena']\" ">";

echo .$row['date'];

echo "</div>";

}

 

can someone tell me why am i escaping it wrong and how should it be escaped

 

so that the div would print normally

 

<div id="arena">date</div>

 

thank you

[samshel]

echo "<div id= "\".$row['arena']."\">";

 

works?

[premiso]

echo "<div id=\"{$row['arena']}\">";

 

Should take care of you.

[georgee.b]

thank you i have tried this, but it still does not seem to be working

 

 

any other thoughts....

 

 

thanks

[Cal]

echo "<div id='".$row['arena']."'>";

 

I'm pretty sure that'll work.

 

Also, this line

echo .$row['date'];

 

needs no dot before the veriable, so use:

 

echo $row['date'];

[Philip]

My preferred way when coding:

echo '<div id="',$row['arena'],'">';

Tweak on samshel's (the 1st escaping slash was in wrong spot):

echo "<div id= \"".$row['arena']."\">";

And premiso's should take care of you too

echo "<div id=\"{$row['arena']}\">";

[Cal]

echo '<div id="',$row['arena'],'">';/

 

What diference do the commas have?

[Philip]

It passes the variables/strings as parameters instead of by concatenation into one string. I also changed the type of quotes - personally I think it's easier to read it that way (just my opinion)

[jackpf]

Wow, I didn't actually know you could use commas, I always use full stops-

 

echo '<div style='.$row['style'].'"> etc...